Scaling up a business is a very different ball game from starting a business. A new level brings with it numerous challenges. If you get it wrong, you will either lose a lot of money, or worse - you might even have to shut down. The best way to avoid some of these mistakes is to listen to leaders who have successfully scaled up and learn from them. To know more about what mistakes one should avoid, we reached out to several leaders who have built and/or grown successful businesses. We asked … [Read more...]
5 Powerful Productivity Hacks for Entrepreneurs
Dmitry Dragilev is the founder of JustReachOut - a PR tool which currently helps 2000+ entrepreneurs and startups reach out to journalists and get press coverage daily all on their own without the help of PR firms. As an entrepreneur, you probably think more about traction and growth than anything else. However, these is another element that's equally important to your success - your productivity. Entrepreneurs have no shortage of ideas and opportunities but most of them fall … [Read more...]
Beating Procrastination: 72 Successful People Reveal their Most Powerful Tips
Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow? "This isn’t important right now, I will get to it later." "This is too difficult, let’s keep it for next week." "I need to be in the right mood." "I work better under pressure." It comes in various forms (as above), but it has one name. Procrastination: a universal troublemaker and the single biggest productivity killer. If you procrastinate about simple things like picking up your dry cleaning, it might not make too much of a … [Read more...]
4 Valuable Leadership Lessons From My Google Days
I believe that Google is one of the best big companies to work at. They do a great job of building an amazing culture and they really care about their employees. It’s very impressive how they’ve been able to maintain a small company feel, in terms of speed and agility, by keeping the teams small and breaking up the company into several parts. Culture is hard to define in a company, but if everyone seems to have something in common, has the same goals, and functions as one unit, they probably … [Read more...]
A Weird, yet Powerful Productivity Approach from Jurassic Park
Have you seen the classic movie – Jurassic Park? A wildlife amusement park, created to be structured and safe, suddenly turns chaotic and dangerous for the visitors due to small unrelated and unpredictable incidents. Does your productivity suffer the same eventuality? Mine certainly does! I will start the day with great intentions of working through my to-do list. But before you know it, some tiny unplanned event will crop up, like a phone call (I don’t avoid) or the urge to finish laundry … [Read more...]
How to Use Internal Communication to Boost your Team’s Productivity
Know what causes the most damage to a team’s productivity? Bad communication. Communication within an organization is often a battle. A war that ends up with missed targets, overworked and dissatisfied employees and frustrated bosses. Employees have little clarity about what the top bosses are trying to achieve. What does my company really expect from me? How does my contribution tie in with the big picture? What do I have to do to grow in the organization? Bosses are frustrated that their … [Read more...]
5 Free Apps for a More Productive 2018
With over 2.8 million apps, it's hard to know where to start. As the volume of apps continues to grow, the process of searching for the right tools to stay productive can be overwhelming. Here are five free productivity apps to reclaim your time and make 2018 your most successful and productive year yet. Regardless of the type of business you are in or how you work, these apps will help increase your productivity and help you reach your goals faster. 1. IOVOX Tired of losing important … [Read more...]
4 Chrome Extensions that Help you Win Your Battle Against Distractions
Staying on task and being productive - especially in a work setting - is becoming increasingly difficult in the online age. Between emails, push notifications, and the ever-inviting temptation of the web itself; it can be difficult to stay focused. If you find yourself easily distracted during work time, then as the saying goes: there’s an app for that. Well, not an app exactly. A Google Chrome extension. These extensions plug right into your Chrome browser and follow you around … [Read more...]
On The Job Training: 3 Low-Cost But Powerful Strategies for Employee Development
Training your employees can be expensive! The 2014 State of the Industry Report by the Association of Talent Development found that businesses spent $1,208 in learning expenses per employee. For small organization with less than 500 workers, however, the cost balloons up to $1,888 per employee annually. And with cash flow problems being the reason for failure of 29% of SMBs and startups, you may feel tempted to bin the idea of developing the talent of your workforce to reduce costs. But … [Read more...]
Why Managers Love it When their Teams are Uncomfortable Working Together
When you think of teamwork, do images of comradeship, triumphs, and smiles come to mind? On the surface, that's exactly what great teams look like. What you don't see, however, is the effort it takes to paint such a picture. Good teamwork doesn't just happen. It takes careful direction and full participation from every person on board. Even then, you may still have people who don't always get along. If that is the case, your team may be positioned to become the best team yet. Yes, you read … [Read more...]
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